Renee R. Jenkins, M.D., F.A.A.P., will give the Margaret Couzens Slattery Memorial Lecture at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Alumni Dinner & Awards Presentation on May 15.

Dr. Jenkins, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a 1971 graduate of the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She is the first African-American president of the nation’s largest pediatric organization.

Dr. Jenkins is professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Howard University and adjunct professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University. After completing a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in New York, she began an adolescent medicine program at Howard. In 1994, she was appointed department chair, and during her tenure directed the departmental training program and practice plan.

The dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Detroit Yacht Club. Dr. Jenkins will speak at 6:30 p.m.